From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3938 invoked by alias); 11 Aug 2004 17:40:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3925 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2004 17:40:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 11 Aug 2004 17:40:39 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7BHeYe3007958 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:40:39 -0400 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (porkchop.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.2]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i7BHeSa20455; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:40:29 -0400 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 300BA2B9D; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:40:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <411A5A06.9000106@gnu.org> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:40:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040801 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Cagney , Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: End-of-life [^_]deprecated_registers[^_] in GDB 6.3 References: <4112995F.4070009@gnu.org> <1438-Fri06Aug2004121531+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <41139D4B.7080106@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <41139D4B.7080106@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-08/txt/msg00174.txt.bz2 >>> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 16:32:31 -0400 >>> >>>> From: Andrew Cagney >>>> >>>> The global variable deprecated_registers was clearly marked as such in '02. It was in the bad books for a lot longer, but that's the point at which we can say that the line was clearly drawn :-) As such, it's time to remove it. >>>> >>>> This has the potential to adversly affect the following files/systems: > > > Systems such as Hurd are very important to the GNU project, so I'm sure we'll find the resources necessary to update them. We can do this! Thanks to MarkK and others, this has happened. We're a good position for closing this one in 6.3. Andrew